St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-15

all unconscious, so it would seem, that
she is herself Il lovelier object than any
counterfeit that artist ever drew. But
If she Is obllviOuS some of the old men
are not, and their admiration goes
promptly from pure art to her mixture
Of art and nature.
MATERIALS IN WHICH TO DRESS
richly and beautifully abound in infinite
variety this season. VelvetS are seen in
plain and solid ColOrS, but they seem, if
possible, richer than before in texture.
There are also numbers of styles and
patterns of striped velvetS and plaid
yelvetS. The stripes are rich and the
eolors very harmonious and pleasing
and, as i'll other goods, the stripes vary
from very narrow to quite wide. some
times in numbers of narrow stripes
forming a wide one, and sometimes
quite plain, but wide. The plaids
are formed the same by
satin woven stripes. All the principal
Sented i'll the brown and gold color.
green and pink, blue and orange, or
pink, or white. Plaids, stripes and
POmpadOur designs are the leading
features OF fine wool fabrics. The soft
wool grounds are woven in Zig-Zag chud-
dah-like stripes, or in armure or tiny
tiSh-Scale patterns, and are then velOurS
raves, striped with velvet, or else they
are plaidS Of velvet. The grounds are
of light Suede, cream, heliotrope, old
pink, Havana brown, moss green, sage,
pigeon S-egg blue or copper red, with
perhaps all these colOrS in the raised
velvet stripes or bars. Wide stripes are
made up of many lines of the velvet.
each of different color, and the plaids
are large, with eight or ten cOlOrS in the
bars. These are tabe used for merely
the lower skirt, and its drapery will be
plaid, while the basque is Of plain wool
OF plain velvet matching in color the
background Of the plaid. Many hand
some barege dresses are modelled some
what after last years style of raised
plush and velvet stripes upon wool
grounds.
WE ARE TOLD GREAT DEAL
about changes that might be expected
in the size and shapes of spring hats and
bOnnetS, but as yet the most of the new
bOnEctS are small, while the new hats
are tall and large. The turban in vari-
Gus forms Is the hat most in vogue at the
moment. The turban. however, is given
taller crown, and when the trimming
is put OIL it looks almost as tall as an
ordinary round hat. A beautiful little
bonnet of black net was embroidered
across the crown with gold beads. fin
iShed with cOronet front of Jet and
gold. and trimmed with a high
cluster of fancy edged ribbon and
pompon Of coques' plumes. A little
bonnet of fancy straw woven with red
chenille was trimmed with high loop of
red ribbon and Chantilly lace, caught bv
long ornament of tortoise shell and let.
full ruche of red lace was placed inside
the brim and the bonnet was finished
with brides of Chantilly lace. A styl-
fish little heliotrope bonnet of English
straw was faced with full putting of
heli0trOpe velvet and trimmed with a
full cluster Of green ruches and full
bows Of choux helOtrOpe ribbon caught
on either side by a. slender comb of
mother-Of-pearl. A long crowned
bonnet of Pamela braid was trimmed
with a cluster of viOlets and a short
labot Of embroidered crepe-lisSe and fin
lShed with full cOrOnet wreath of VIC
lets and ribbon strings. A high ecru
chip hat with broad brim was trimmed
around the crown with wide tinsel
band embroidered in Oriental cOlors and
resting on band Of brown velvet; the
brim Of the hat was caught UP at one
side with full cluster of white ostrich
tips shading to ecru. A number of
pretty children'S hats were shown
trimmed with
GAY RIBBONS AND FANCY PLUMES.
Large numbers of wide Italian plaits
are imported embroidered with fine
Tuscan straw. These braids are shown
in all shades of dress goods and will he
sewn into little Lenten bOnnetS. or used
as the borders of bonnetS with fancy
crowns, or borders of hats with Milan
crown, or in any way the fertile fancy
of the milliner can devise. 1t is pleas
ant thing to know that all braids are not
sewn together into shapes as well in
This country as abroad, and that most of
this work is now done here. The pacha
braid is a fancy combination of satin
oraid and Coburg, and is shown
N two shades of color like
>anemone; and silver gray or
pigeon green biege. There are
a number of pineapple braids, and
among novelties are bands of pineapple
braid decorated with the woody scales
of the pine cone. Combinations of Ne
apolitan and rough-and-ready straw are
shown for rustic hats. Rougl-and-ready
6raids later in the season will undoubt-
edly be used again for ordinary knock
about bOInetS and hats. Little bonnets
aHe shown i'll a myriad of shapes and
STYLES, though there is tendency to
larger styles. Some of the new shapes
are similar to the fshwife poke worn
few years ago, while others have this
flarilag front cleft in one or two places,
leaving room for the milliner's trim
mingA. There is little doubt that
the snsing bonnets will be even more